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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 9 – August 8, 2022 768 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 220 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Intel Microcode Decryptor

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Yes, social media is undermining democracy

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. Intel Microcode Decryptor

  2. EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

  3. NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

  4. More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

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  1. TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

  2. The world needs a non-profit search engine

  3. House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report

  4. My business card runs Linux

  5. Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z

  6. Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

  7. Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

  8. How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing

  9. GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software

  10. AMD passes Intel in market cap

Sports 28 stories

  1. Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme

  2. Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world

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  1. Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title

  2. Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns

  3. It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot

  4. Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

  5. Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

  6. Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO

Technology 600 stories

  1. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

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  1. Use one big server

  2. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

  3. I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

  4. Glassdoor not so anonymous

  5. Deepest infrared image of universe

  6. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  7. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  8. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

  9. Scratch is a big deal

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

  2. Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

  2. Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

  3. Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

  4. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  5. Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings

  6. Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

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